Dyed article and method of dyeing the same



March 27, 1934. SHERWOOD 1,952,612

DYED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF DYEING THE SAME Filed June 25, 1931 INVENTOR EDWARD SHERWOOD HUS ATTORNEYS- Patented Mar. 27, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT; OFFICE 1,952,612 I I DYED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF DYEIN THE SAME Edward Sherwood, Mineola, N. Y., assignor to Fred Fear & 00., Brooklyn, N. Y., a corporation M of New York Application June 25, 1931, Serial No. 546,927

Claims.

This invention relates to a novel, dyed article and method of dyeing the same.

One of the objects of this invention is the creation of a new method of dyeing articles to create 5 picturesque, novel dyed articles.

Another object of this invention is the creation of a novel dyed article.

A still further object of this invention is the creation of a novel method of dyeing eggs to yield artistic effects thereon.

A still further object of this invention is the creation of a novel method of dyeing eggs to produce a crazy patch work eifect on the surface thereof and in different colors.

A still further object of this invention is the creation of a novel dyed egg and the method of dyeing the same so as to produce a patch quilt work effect thereon in different colors.

Various other objects than those heretofore recited will appear more fully hereinafter, and from the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 shows a container in which a piece of dye paper has created a colored dye solution;

Fig. 2 shows a container in which a different piece of dye paper has created a different colored dye solution; a V

Fig. 3 shows a container in which the dye paper has been cut in the form of an animal and has created a still different colored dye solution;

Fig. 4 shows different dye papers spread upon a wrapping element;

Fig. 5 shows such wrapping element being wrapped about an egg; and

Fig. 6 shows the finally dyed egg.

The invention hereinafter disclosed resides in the steps, combination and sequence of steps and in the novel dyed article all as will be more fully hereinafter disclosed.

In the art of egg dyeing to produce colored Easter eggs numerous attemptshave been made to produce artistically pleasing and picturesque color designs on the egg surface. The various dyes and methods of using the same have been difficult of application and productive of but poorly dyed eggs. While it has always been possible to secure a solid dye by the dipping of an egg into a fiuid of a given color much difiiculty has been encountered in the depositing upon the surface of the egg of a design made up of a multiplicity of interspersed colors to produce artistic effects. It is the purpose of this invention, therefore, to disclose a method of egg dyeing and a dyed egg capable of creation by a simple series of steps utilizing easily obtainable dyes of a definite type.

There is now on the market an egg dye consisting of a plurality of fibrous paper sheets having different colors impregnated in respective sheets, one of said sheets being of solid yellow, another solid red, etc. Sheets of this character may, of course, be used for a solid dye on the surface of an egg, or like article. Such sheets have been used by dipping the same into water until the coloring matter impregnated in the fibres thereof forms a colored dye solution with the water into which the sheet is dipped.

By cutting the fibrous sheets up into small or rectangular square pieces 1, 2, immersing a plu': rality of such pieces into luke warm or hot water in different glasses 3 so as to have a solid color 4, 5, 6 in each glass, it is possible to first dye a number of eggs with solid colors and then to produce the eggs having a plurality of different colors on the surface thereof. To effect the latter the little pieces of different color impregnated papers 7 which have sunken to the bottom of the respective glasses are placed on a piece of newspaper or the like 8, held in the as hand 9, the egg 10 is placed on top of said fibrous squares, which still contain some coloring matter, and the hand is closed bringing the colored pieces lying on the paper into contact with the egg 11 surface. Thereafter, the hand is opened and the egg on which there has been dyed a crazy patch quilt work in a plurality of colors '7 and 12 is removed and dried. After drying the colored surface of the egg it may be polished by rubbing the same with a cloth.

It is thus apparent from the foregoing that I have devised a novel method of egg dying as well as a novel dyed object.

It is to be understood that the method hereinbefore disclosed as well as the article producedfl? by the method of dyeing may be adapted not only to eggs but to other objects on which it is desired to dye a design of the type herein discussed.

It will be apparent that by varying the shape @19 of the small pieces of vari-colored paper any desired design may be obtained ranging from what is popularly known as a crazy or patch quilt design to carefully worked artistic designs. Likewise, by cutting the individual pieces of pa- 9 per into simulation of animals 12 or other objects animate or inanimate many artistic and pleasing effects may be obtained. In this respect not only is the shape of the particular pieces of paper of importance but, also, the relative locations of the different pieces of paper of different color relative to each other.

While for the sake of economy the invention has been described as utilizing the waste strips or pieces of paper after they have served the function of forming solid color dyes it will be readily understood that the various color impregnated papers may be moistened and used initially for the purpose of obtaining the effect forming the subject matter of my invention. By varying the length of time in which any piece of paper is immersed in water a wide and controllable variation of intensity of color may be obtained thereby obtaining additional control of the ultimate coloring effect.

Having now set forth the object and nature of my invention and having described the principles and process thereof what I claim as new and useful and of my own invention and what I desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. As a new method of dyeing articles the steps of immersing in each of a plurality of separate containers pieces of diiferent color impregnated fibrous material to form a plurality of different colored dye solutions and partially deplete the material of the coloring matter therein contained, dipping the articles to be dyed in said containers to form solid dyes thereon, removing after a time the partially color-exhausted pieces of fibrous material from the respective containers, laying difierent colored pieces of said material on a wrapping element and bringing said color'ed pieces into contact with the surface of another egg' to be dyed by applying said wrapping element about said surface.

2. As a new method of dyeing the surface of rotund articles with a crazy patch work like effect, the dipping of pieces of color-impregnated fibrous material into water to moisten said material and remove therefrom any desired amount of the dye matter therein contained, removing the color-impregnated pieces in a partially colordepleted condition, laying a plurality of said different color-impregnated pieces in any desired conformation on a wrapping sheet and wrapping said sheet about the article to be dyed to bring said dye impregnated pieces of material into contact with the article to be dyed.

3. The method recited in claim 2 characterized in that the ultimate color intensity of the dyed article is controlled by varying the duration of dipping of the color-impregnated pieces in the water.

4. The method of manufacturing dyed eggs which consists in dipping a plurality of small pieces of fibrous material each impregnated with a different color into a plurality of hot water containers, dipping eggs into said containers to form solid colors thereon, then removing the color-impregnated small pieces of fibrous material from said containers, and laying the same on a wrapping element in a random design and then successively applying said wrapping element about other eggs.

5. The method recited in claim 4 characterized in that the respective pieces of fibrous material are laid on the wrapping element in a prechosen artistic relative arrangement.

EDWARD SHERWOOD.

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